On the last day of term before the October break, we held a house morning in school.
The children worked together in their houses,sometimes across stages, and carried out a range of activities under the theme of ‘Team Building’, so they had to collaborate and co-operate well with each other to succeed!
Lots of fun and quality learning opportunities were had, as you can see by our selection of photos below!
Today we gathered our Harvest Collection, which will be donated to Broughton St Mary’s Parish Church Foodbank.
Huge thanks to everyone who donated something- no matter how big or small, all donations will help people in need, and will be very gratefully received.
We’d like to also thank our House Captains and Vice captains, who organised our harvest collection for our special Harvest Assembly today, and helped to pack it all, ready for the Foodbank staff to collect.
We’d like to wish everyone a happy, healthy and relaxing October break!
Our Harvest Assembly for the pupils will take place on Friday 14th October.
We would like to be able to continue supporting Broughton St Mary’s Parish Church Foodbank.
If you are able to make a donation to our collection here is a list of suitable items you could donate-
UHT Milk (carton full fat)
Fruit Juice (long life)
Cereals (500g or 1Kg)
Pasta Sauces
Rice or Pasta or Noodles (500g)
Jam
Biscuits or Chocolates
Tinned Meat, Fish, Tomatoes, Potatoes, Vegetables, Fruit, Rice Pudding, Sponge Pudding
Sugar (500g)
Tea Bags (40 packs)
Instant Coffee (Small Jar)
Below is a link to our Harvest letter with details of our Harvest collection-
Please bring any food straight to the school gym hall on the morning of October 14th from 8.30am. School staff,our house captains and vice captains will be there to accept your contribution.
Thanks, in advance, for any donations you can make- they really are appreciated!
Is your child 4 years of age by 28 February, 2017?
If so, he/she is eligible to begin school in August 2017.
We would like to invite you to see our school in action and meet the Leadership Team.
There are 2 time slots available to do this on WEDNESDAY 2nd NOVEMBER at 9.15a.m. or 1.30p.m.
The following week, registration for new P1 to start in August 2017 will take place, here at Broughton Primary. Dates and times below:
Monday 7th November 1.30 – 3.00
Tuesday 8th November 8.00 – 11.00 and 1.30 – 3.00
Wednesday 9th November 1.30 – 3.00
Thursday 10th November 8.00 – 12.00
Friday 11th November 9.00 – 11.00
Below are links to the Open Day information poster, and registration information.
New P1 Registration Details November 2016
We look forward to seeing you then!
The PSA Lunchtime Cafe was held on Friday 30th September and raised £288!
Huge thanks to everyone who helped run this event. The PSA plan on having further lunchtime cafes later on this session, and are always looking for people to help.
If you can help, contact the PSA through our ‘Contact Us’ section, or the PSA Facebook page.
P7 returned from their very successful residential excursion to Lagganlia on Friday.
We all had a fantastic week, full of a range of different outdoor activities. Among the activities we were lucky to take part in were-
We also had the chance to practice important life skills that developed independence- being away from home for 4 nights, making beds, keeping dorm rooms and communal areas tidy and organising ourselves to follow detailed instructions.
Lagganlia staff were very impressed with the efforts of our pupils. They were enthusiastic about their activities, persevered when things were challenging, and supported and encouraged each other to keep going to succeed.
We are very proud of such glowing reports- huge well done P7! We hope you enjoyed yourselves! You’ve made some very special memories.
Below are a selection of the many photos we took last week!
P7 arrived safely at Lagganlia Outdoor Education Centre, near Aviemore, yesterday lunchtime!
We have settled in to our dorms well, and have been developing independence and life skills through keeping our new home for the week clean, doing dishes and keeping dorms tidy and organised!
We have already done a range of exciting and interesting activities! Last night we carried out a ‘Scatter Course’, a kind of scavenger hunt to get to know the Lagganlia Centre well. Todays activities have included a gorge walk, abseiling, rock climbing, mountain biking and a hill walk.
The children have been recording their thoughts and feelings about their activities in their daily diary time too.
The weather has been mixed- a bit windy today, but that helps to keep the dreaded midges at bay!
We are happy to share just a few of our pictures so far with you below- there has already been some fantastic team work, encouragement, support and determination from our pupils- long may their positive attitude continue! More photos to follow later in the week!
Our PSA will be holding a Lunchtime Cafe this Friday 30th September.
This will run from 11.30 until 1pm in the school Dining Hall.
On sale will be soup, savouries and home baking.
If you can support the cafe with a donation of sandwiches, cakes or other goodies, that would be much appreciated!
The flyer is below-
We are excited to announce the members of 2 very important Pupil Groups at Broughton- Pupil Council and House Captains.
Pupils interested in representing their class on Pupil Council prepared short presentations to say why they would be a good candidate, and were voted for by their classmates. Especially exciting for P2 and P3, who have reps for the first time this year!
Our Pupil Council this year are as follows-
P2a Ruby Dockerty
P2b Orla Pendry
P3a Beatrice Smith
P3b Grace Clarkson
P4a Holly Bartholomew
P4b Ruby Foster
P5a Finn Pendry
P5b Jess Russell
P6 Calum Rathjen
P6/7 Ewan Gardner
P7 Alba McGowan
LCW Jamie Pass
P7 House Captain candidates, and P6 Vice- Captain candidates had to present to the members from their house from P5-P7. After some very close voting, the following pupils were voted in to represent their respective houses.
House Captains 2016-2017
McDonald
Ruth Adler P7 Sean Hunter P7
Pilrig
Isla McPherson P6/7 Amelia Durward-McLeod P6/7
Trinity
Katherine Donn P7 Douglas Harper P7
Drummond
Kayleigh Wylie P7 Cammy Clarkson P7
House Vice- Captains 2015-2016
McDonald
Thomas Dimelow P6 Harris Archibald P6
Pilrig
Alex Moir P6 Megan Wright P6/7
Trinity
Greig McVicar P6 Sameer Uddin P6
Drummond
Harper Clark-Tonberg P6 Holly Hou P6
Congratulations to all our new members! We’re sure you’ll represent yout classes and houses well!
Praise must also be given to everyone who put themselves forward to be considered for these important roles. You were all very brave and confident to stand up and present to your audiences. Well done!
We had a visit from author E.R. Reilly at our assembly on Monday! He read us some excerpts from his books and gave us story writing tips we can use in our own creative writing and stories.
He held a book signing, where pupils could buy signed copies of some of his stories. Over 50 copies of his books were sold, so he kindly donated a number of free books to the school!
We enjoyed his visit very much!
This week also saw our annual ‘Meet the Teacher’ event. The evening was well attended across the school, and we hope that our parents and carers found it to be a useful and informative event. Power point presentations for each stage will be available to view on individual class pages soon. Watch this space!
Thanks for supporting us with your attendance!
Broughton Primary 